Never Let Me Go by Sommer Prime https://padlet.com/sprime/l74dsqzplwb5 en-us 2018-10-11 01:55:59 UTC 2018-10-30 17:20:19 UTC hello@padlet.com Chapter 1 sprime https://padlet.com/sprime/l74dsqzplwb5/wish/291718038
  • Quote: “There have been times over the years when I’ve tried to leave Hailsham behind, when I’ve told myself I shouldn’t look back so much. But then there came a point when I just stopped resisting” (5). 
    • Kathy can be characterized from this quote because she seems to be relentless and nostalgic with and unconsciousness of her past defining her future and her life as a carer. 
    1. Themes: 
    • Reminiscence and a theme of nostalgia when the narrator continuously recalls Hailsham. She keeps discussing her high school years and ow much she misses the times she had as a child. 
    • Having to choose between donors is a theme of cause and effect and reminiscence because Kathy always says, “anyway, if i’d never started choosing, how would I ever have got close again to Ruth and Tommy after all those years?” (4). She had once known them in high school and now had the opportunity to be a carer so this way she was with familiarity when she was with them. 
    1. Devices: 
    • Imagery when Kathy is explaining the times when she recalls all the senior guys playing on the field and laughing at Laura and all the actions of Tommy. 
    1. Conflict:
    • The conflict of Tommy and Kathy when she told him he messed up his polo shirt. 
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  • Quote: “A lot of the time, how you were regarded at Hailsham, how much you were liked and respected, had to do with how good you were at “creating” (16).
    • The Exchange clearly had a large impact on the relationships of Tommy, Ruth, and Kathy, which means this “creation” was extremely detrimental in the jobs they were picked to do when they were older or something. 
    1. Themes: 
    • Animals being depicted as symbols for adult things, like the elephant and the giraffe. 
    • All the reminiscing of Hailsham is still depicted in this chapter. 
    1. Devices:
    • Foreshadowing is apparent in the recalling of memories because they were obviously all picked to be whether it is a carer or donor now because of their lives at Hailsham which is why I think Hailsham is so apparent in Kathy’s life. 

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  • Quote: "There was an unspoken rule that we should never even raise the subject in their presence" (31).
    • The Gallery has never been spoken about by the Guardians but Tommy and Kathy were afraid they didn't know if the place really existed. 
    1. Conflicts: 
    • A conflict between Madame and the girls, Ruth, Laura, Hannah, etc., is that they think Madame just wants them to work and doesn't actually like them.
    1. Themes: 
    • The theme of the novel so far is authoritativeness of others ruling over those who seem to be beneath them. The guardians are controlling the careers and the donors and especially at the times of their secret meetings in the Gallery, when all they can talk about is if someone will hear them. 
    1. Devices: 
    • The common devices used are anecdotes and recalls, because all Kathy does is reminisce on the days she had at Hailsham.
    • Another device used is symbolism, when discussing the gallery it can be seen as a symbol for possibility or and end, because come to find out, the gallery is actually not real. Also the fact that Ruth tests her theory that Madame is actually afraid of the students at Hailsham can be seen as a symbol.
    1. Characters: 
    • We see some characterization of Kathy  because she keeps feeling like they can be seen and are going to get in trouble with the Guardians, which shows she is nervous or worrisome of ticking off the Guardians. 
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  • Quote: "I won't be a carer any more come the end of the year, and though I've got a lot of it, I have to admit I'll welcome the chance to rest- to stop and think and remember" (37).
    • This quote is a symbol for what she has dedicated her entire life as a carer and now she would first be able to do what she wanted which was remember her years and try to fix her relationships with Ruth & Tommy. 
    1. Conflicts:
    • The tokens given to students who created and gave to the Exchange was a controversial topic because the student felt it was unfair and protested but Madame said they didn't understand. 
    • Miss Emily had a stern way with the students and always caused a lesson in her speeches to teach them something. 
    1. Themes:
    • A theme in the novel is again the controlling aspect of the Guardians and Madame over the others in the story which caused a lot of the conflict between the students and the Guardians. 
    • Another theme is the possibilities because the students are always trying to learn something or believe something that they think is a secret. 
    1. Characters: 
    • Miss Emily is a stern and odd leader who always was trying to get in the way of things and keep the students confused about the reality of their lives. 
    • Kathy has a hard time expressing herself when she is not just basing it off of her memories. She relies heavily on her high school life which sets a background for the way she is now.
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  • Quotes: "There's no question Ruth was keen to keep the whole thing going. But they truth was, those of us who'd grown close to her, we each played our part in preserving the fantasy and making it last as long as possible" (52).
    • This was showing the demanding idea of secrecy in a place like a boarding school and especially one that is trying to keep your manifested destiny a secret form you. 
    1. Themes:
    • The theme of creativity vs. individuality, as discovered it seems an creative individual will be a carer and a non creative individual is a donor because they have no talent that the Guardians or Madame are looking for. They do not contribute to the sales of the art and that means they are useless in the eyes of the guards and Madame. 
    • The theme of cloning is the guards want to replicate the people who are donors in their personalities or their behaviors so that they can have more donors. 
    • Lying is a theme of the guards because they want to prevent the children form leaving the land of Hailsham so that they cant runaway form their destiny. 
    1. Landscape: 
    • The landscape and setting are in mostly the three same places, Hailsham, village/ gallery, and the recovery rooms. The landscape is not very vast but it is symbolic because it shows the confinements of the donors and the carer and the amount of control they are under. 
    1. Symbols: 
    • The woods often represent the place of evil or where people go  and never come back. The fact that the students say, "The woods played on our imaginations the most after dark, in our dorms as we were trying to fall asleep" (50). The guards describe stories that are not even real and the kids play them up and believe they are true.
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  • Quotes: "I suppose she wanted us to have a grasp of what was out there surrounding us, and it's amazing, even now, after all these miles I've covered as a carer, the extent to which my idea of the various countries is still set by these pictures Miss Emily put up on her easel" (65). 
    The easel is this idea of possibility and knowledge of the unknown to the children. Just because she was giving them insight to what was outside of the boundaries of Hailsham she was forbidden form teaching them and fired. 
  • Conflicts: 
    • The conflict Ruth has between Midge is before Kathy luckily intervenes first so that Midge will not see Ruth in this state of uncertainty. 
    1. Themes: 
    • Favoritism is obvious when they discuss Ruth and her relationship with Miss Geraldine in the prior chapter. But also The conflict of Ruth in her distinction between fantasy and her real life. When Kathy says something about in the cave she sees Ruth is crushed by it. This is a conflict between the interests and intentions of Kathy acted upon Ruth's lifestyle. 
    1. Symbols: 
    • Judy Bridgewater's song, and Kathy's first tape cassette, it had gone missing and that was a symbol for her loss of Miss Emily, a real person surrounded by so much fake and altering causes.
    • Another symbol is the idea of realism and Miss Emily being a symbol of life and future. She was sent to the children as a pure and giving person, but because she never followed the rules of lying and deceiving the kids she was fired for being true. 
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  • Quotes: "You'll become adults, then before you're old, before you're even middle-aged, you'll start to donate your vital organs" (81). 
    • This is what Miss Lucy explains to the kids.
    1. Conflicts:  Miss Lucy told the kids that they won't move t America or live a normal life because they will be donors. 
    • Tommy gets bullied again over his arm and it affects him again.
    1. Themes: 
    • Non- serious and joking so that Tommy continues to get bullied. And all the kids know how to do is joke with Tommy and joke about the donors and about giving their organs at like 13 years old.

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  • Quotes:  "It was like there was some parallel universe we all vanished off to where we had all this sex" (97).  
  • Themes: 
    • Using your limited time on Earth.
    • Sex starts to become something the children are interested in. 
    1. Conflicts: 
    • Ruth and Tommy have a relationship which means Kathy is an outsider in a relationship she wanted.
    • Ruth and Tommy break up before chapter nine
    1. Characterization:  
    • Kathy now wants to be with someone else because she is envious over Tom and Ruth.
    • Tommy has an apparent shift in his acting because he must feel connected to Miss Lucy and he knows something is coming for her. 
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  • Conflicts: 
    • Harry is very weak and Kathy recalls that she feels horrible for leading Harry on and then dropping him and changing plans when Tommy became available. 
    1. Themes: 
    Nostalgia and digging up the past
    1. Characterization: 
    •  Kathy put people ahead of herself which may have something to do with her being a carer. For instance Ruth suddenly wants Tommy back but again Kathy puts her own needs aside  so she can help Ruth when realistically Kathy wanted a chance with Tommy. 
    • Ruth is flighty at best and doesn't really know what she wants, she wants Tommy because she thinks she could lose him. 

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  • Quotes: "Its just a bit of nostalgia to pass the time" (116). 
    • This quote is explaining and blurting out the underlying theme of nostalgia and memories weighing down on the life that Kathy lives. 
    1. Characterization: 
    • Kathy wants to write again because she realizes she spent most of her life devoting herself to be a carer but now she wants more, then she decides maybe shes not serious enough about it. 
    • Ruth is aware she has been carrying Tommy in all the wrong ways.
    1. Landscape/ Setting: 
    • The cottages give the audience a more sincere feeling and an idea that maybe these 8 kids form Hailsham have a chance but it is actually the steps before they give their lives away. 
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  • Conflict: 
    • Ruth and Kathy start in a weird place because of what Ruth did.  
    • Kathy sees Ruth as a complete traitor and cant understand why she betrayed her life that. 
    1. Characterization: 
    • Kathy told Ruth a deep secret and Ruth used it against her by trying so hard to fit in with all the veterans.
    • All the kids seem to have an obsession with sex.
    1. Themes:
    • Sex is something constantly on the minds of the students at the cottages that they get magazines. 

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  • Quotes: "Since each of us was copied at some point form a normal person, there must be, for each of us, somewhere out there a model getting on with his or her life" (139).
    • They are all clones. 
    1. Themes:
    • This theme of "possibles" seems to have Kathy pretty enticed in the beginning of the chapter. 
    • The theme of clones becomes apparent when Kathy starts to explain that possibles were someone you come from like a look-a-like . 
    • Wonder is something everyone does because they are looking out for their clone when they are out and about because it is something they wish to know. 
    1. Quotes: 
    • "Since each of us was copied at some point from a normal person, there must be, for each of us, somewhere out there, a model getting on with his or her life" (139).
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    1. Themes:
    •  The theme of a possible is continued they talk about the Norfolk day and what really went down. 
    • Birthday cards as a symbol for love and clones being able to have an actual birthday.
    • A theme of predestination, because their lives are already set out for them.  
    1. Conflicts: 
    • Deferral comes up, Ruth tries to get them to believe it is a process in which two people who love each other cna get their time extended. 
    • The possible was not a possible at all. 
    1. Characterization: 
    • Ruth tries lying about how she heard about it but never said anything about it much at Hailsham. 
    • Kathy is the first to notice that the woman is not Ruth’s possible which makes her observant. 
    • Chrissy and Rodney are trying to help ease the mood because Ruth claims she’s very upset about the whole idea in the first place.
    • Ruth starts to talk about how the people they are cloning are not good people like this woman but pole like prostitutes and people like garbage because those are the ones they can use to give up their organs. 
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  • Quotes: "When I think of that moment now, standing with Tommy in the little side-street about to begin our search, I feel a warmth welling up through me" (171).
  • Characterization: 
    • Tommy and Kathy have an in depth conversation about how Tommy has never really cared for the idea of the possible and he doesn’t find it as important to find his as others do. 
    • Tommy offers to buy her the Bridgewater tape which means he is still genuine about her. 
    • Kathy puts aside her own wants and desires to tell the group about the moment her and Tommy had to try and not spoil the mood because she is unselfish. 
    1.  Theme:
    • True love is apparent between Kathy and Tommy as they talk because they are talking and reminiscing about the tape kathy had when they were at hailsham and Tommy is explaining how he is trying to find her it. 
    • What it’s really like in the souls of these kids. A gallery as a symbol of who the students at Hailsham were deep inside of them. 
    • Small animals are a theme from the beginning like the elephant that was referred to in the beginning of the book. 
    • Tommy looking to once more show creativity as a part of getting somewhere in the deferral process. 

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  • Themes: 
    • Tension in the air between everyone because there are secrets and let downs. 
    • Betrayal between Kathy and Tommy because of Ruth. 
    1. Characterization: 
    • Tommy being worried about his art that he shows Kathy and, Kathy wonders how “Madame would feel about them,” and Tommy says that he’ll “have to work on them more” before he can offer them to the Gallery.
    • Ruth acts like she has changed or matured in some way by acting like Hailsham was not a part of her life to be remembered.
    • Ruth ruins the mood of Tommy’s art by telling him that she and Kathy think it’s stupid. This betrays Kathy. 

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  •  Characterization: 
    • The essay is hanging over Kathy’s head and she tries to write in hopes it will keep her bond. 
    • Ruth apologizes to Tommy finally for making fun of his drawings. 
    • Ruth tells Kathy that Tommy doesn’t see her as a potential if they ever break up. 
    1. Themes: 
    • Issues between Kathy and ruth are always apparent especially in this chapter. 
    • Kathy begins her job as a carer. 

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  • Characterization: 
    • Kathy discusses her life as a carer and what it was like for the whole process
    • Encounter with Laura who was much of a joke at Hailsham. 
    • Ruth gives a donation and she is already very weak. 
    • The attempt of being Ruth's carer. 
    • They pick Tommy up and they decide to take a trip to the boat.
    1. Theme: 
    • Hailsham closes, is symbolic for a piece of their childhood leaving them.
    • Hailsham is a large theme of childhood and reminiscence. 
    • The abandoned boat. 
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  • Quotes: "My heart had done a little leap, because in a single stroke, with that little laugh of agreement, it felt as though Tommy and I had come closer together again after all the years" (222).
    • This quote is the expressions of Kathy because she still loves Tommy and feels they are getting closer again. 
    1. Conflicts: 
    • Ruth is finally realizing maybe she made the wrong choices. 
    • Chrissie completes. 
    • Ruth says that cloning is more important. 
    1. Characterization: 
    • Ruth acts like she doesn't remember when she looked for her possible at the offices so she can act tough in some way. 
    • Ruth admits cheating on Tommy.
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  • Theme:
    • Ruth and Tommy became reunited once more when she becomes his carer. 
    • Sex comes back into a theme when Kathy and Tommy believe sex will prove their intimacy. 
    • Artistic achievements are again used when Tommy tried to impress Kathy with his new works and stuff he can bring to Madame. 
    1. Characterization: 
    • Kathy and Tommy decide to finally go see Madame in order to get a deferral. 
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  • Themes: 
    • They use Hailsham as a part of getting Madame to talk to them. 
    • Hailsham comes up again as a picture in Madame's house. 
    • Love, is something they are manipulating in order to get a deferral. 
    • Gallery: the gallery once again is brought up in the hypothesis of Tommy but Madame is shocked and impressed by the fact that they came up with it.
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  • Quotes: "If they're so foolish, let them believe it" (258). 
    • This quote explains how the people treated the kids and what they did and believed of the rumors. 
    • "Your art would reveal what what you were like. What you were like inside" (260).
    • This quote is an idea of what the gallery was actually used for. 
    1. Reveals:
    • A place like Hailsham was never created when cloning was created because they never assumed the predestined organs came form anywhere. 
    • Deferral is not a real thing. Just a rumor. 
    • The fear of a "super-race".
    • "Let their lives run their course". 
    • Reason that Miss Lucy was opposing the way Hailsham was  run and what the reasons were. 
    • Madame wished she could help them.
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  • Charcaters:
    • Kathy is trying to stay with Tommy until he completes but,  Tommy thinks its time for him to get a new carer. 
    • Tommy makes and analogy to a river and how Kathy and Tommy are drifting apart from each other. now that they have to watch him go through his fourth donation before he completes. 
    • They talk about if Ruth would have liked to know all they found out about Hailsham. They are considerate that these meetings may be their lasts. 
    • Kathy wishes Ruth would take more responsibility and guilt for keeping them apart for so long. 
    1. Events:
    • Kathy says goodbye to Tommy finally. 
    • Kathy imagines Tommy waving to her from the water.
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